Rail-joint.



C. J. OLIGHER.

RAH. JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-2i. 1914.

Patented Nov. 28, 1915.

- under the base of the rail. The fish plate 8 CLAIRE .T. OLIGHER, or DERBY, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JorNr.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Application filed September 21, 1914. Serial No. 862,777.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAIRE J. OLIGHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Derry, in the county of VVestmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Joints, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in rail joints, and has for its primary object the provision of a joint of such construction as to do away with the use of nuts and bolts.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a joint which can be easily assembled and allow for the expansion and contraction of the rail sections.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel details of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more clearly understood from the following description and drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse View on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a detail perspective of the locking plate or key, and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of one of the fish plates.

In the drawings, the numerals l and 2 indicate the meeting ends of two rail sections of ordinary construction, these rail sections having openings 3 through the web thereof. A fish plate 4 is received on one'side of the rail sections and is provided with the underlying portion 5 adapted to extend under the base of the rail and is provided with the extensions 6 having the enlarged heads -7. On the opposite side of the rail section is the fish plate 8 having the elongated openings 9 therein and said fish plate is alsoprovided with an underlying extension 10 engaging is provided withthe corrugated flanges or ribs 11, one being arranged above the openings 9 and the other below the openings.

A locking plate 12 having the dovetailed gI'OOW-l 13 therein is adapted to be received on the enlarged heads 7 of the projections 6 and the edges of the groove are corrugated,

as shown at 14, to engage the corrugated flanges or ribs 11 on the fish vplate 8. An opening 15 is formedin the top and bottom of the plate 12 and the corrugated edges are inclined on each side of the opening, thereby permitting the extensions 6 to be of equal length and permitting the plate 12 to be placed over either end of the extensions.

In assembling the'several parts the fish plates are placed on opposite sides of the Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A rail joint comprising a pair of rail sections, fish plates on opposite sides of the rail sections, one of said fish plates provided with projections having enlarged ends extending through the rail sections and opposite plate, and a plate having a dovetailed groove therein and a groove' extending transversely of said plate secured to the enlarged ends of the projections.

2. A rail joint comprising. a pair of rail sections, fish plates on opposite sides of the rail sections, one of said fish plates provided with projections having enlarged ends extending through the rail sections and opposite fish plate, the opposite fish plate provided with longitudinal corrugated flanges, and a plate having a dovetailed groove therein received on the enlarged ends of the projections and having corrugations thereon adaptedto engage the corrugated flanges on the fish plate.

3. A rail joint comprising a pair of rail Y sections, fish plates on opposite sides of the rail sections, one of said fish plates provided with'projections having enlarged ends extending through the rail sections and opposite fish plate, the opposite fish plate pro- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature vided with longitudinal corrugated flanges, in presence of two witnesses. and a plate having a dovetailed groove therein received on the enlarged ends of the 7 OLHIHER' projections, said plate having a plurality of Witnesses inclined corrugated surfaces adapted to en- THOS. M. PLATT,

gage the corrugated flanges on the fish plate. ADAM L. DOBERNEOK.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

